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* Built as a summer Palace by order of king Kristian IV of Denmark and is believed to was completed in 1615.

* In the 18th century tha castle was painted yellow.

* The large saloon was decorated in 1928 with oil paintings by Stellan Mörner amongst others. Mr Mörner was a member of “Halmstadgruppen” (in english; Halmstad Group) a famous swedish group of artists that started out as cubists and introduced surrealism as an art genre in Sweden.
During the 20th century the paintings was covered with wallpaper but a restoration to save the oilpaintings started som after the millennium shift.

* King Gustav II Adolf, Queen Kristina, King Karl II and King Gustav III are some of the Swedish regents that have stayed in the castle.

* Halmstad castle is nowdays serving as an privateapartment for the “Landshövding” and as a representationapartment/floor for the same.

If you like to get a view of where this castle is situated, please subscribe with your e-mail address in the box up to the left (or below if you are on aphone/tablet), and you can download a pdf-map of Scania where these castles are pointed out. You will also get e-mails, about once per month, with more stories and links to only for subscribers videos about Swedish castles.

If you have found this page I am very pleased and welcome you to what will become a place to read about, see pictures from and watch video from different noble houses in Sweden. In Sweden we call them castles or manors, but in english there are a lot of names for it it seems.

Basically it is places where noble people have lived, and those places very often is very beautiful!

And that is what you will find here!

It will take a couple of months before i officially launch this page but if you i tne mean time like to follow me in swedish with a lot of beatiful pictures of castles in sweden, please do: www.twitter.com/skanskaslott

Regards

Per

If you like to get a view of where this castle is situated, please subscribe with your e-mail address in the box up to the left (or below if you are on aphone/tablet), and you can download a pdf-map of Scania where these castles are pointed out. You will also get e-mails, about once per month, with more stories and links to only for subscribers videos about Swedish castles.

Castles, manors and other noble houses in Scania-Sweden

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...and get a map over the castles in Scania that I have written about, and will write about here at Swecastle.com.
You will be able to see where the battles took place and how the different noble families on their castles interacted with each other. The map is in pdf-format and when it gets updated you will get an email about with the newsletter.
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